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VARIABLE TICKET. 'No. 371,008. Patented Oqt. 4,1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. WALLER, OF RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY.

VARIABLE TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,008, dated October 4, 1887.

Application filed February 1, 1887. Serial No. 226.162. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM EDGAR WAL- LER,of Rutherford,in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Variable Tickets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has for its object to provide independent numerals, letters, and characters so constructed that they can be easily and quickly joined together and fastened to goods to form variable tickets for marking the same, and when so applied will be securely held against displacement.

The invention consists in a variable ticket composed of individual characters, provided with pins, hooks, or equivalent devices for fastening them to the goods, and connected by separable joints, the jointsections on each character interlocking with those on the adjacent character or characters, as hereinafter more fully described and particularly claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification,in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a face view of a ticket applied and formed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged rear view of a single therewith, with a keeper, D, in which is fitted to slide the tongue 0 of the adjoining character, the keeper D and the tongue C, interlocking therewith,forming the sections of thejoint, by which the individual characters are thus separably connected. ,I prefer to form each character, together with its fastening-hook and side connections, by stamping from a single piece of thin sheet metal, as brass; but the fastening-hook B may be soldered thereto, if desired, as shown in Fig. 2.

In forming the variable ticket the proper characters are joined together by their lateral interlocking connections, and the fastening pins or hooks B of all inserted in the goods to be marked, as indicated in Fig. 1. The lateral tongues and keepers, in conjunction with the end fastening devices, maintain the characters against both endwise and sidewise displace ment.

The ticket is easily attachable and detachable, and can be varied at will.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A variable ticket composed of individual characters provided with fastening devices,as described, and connected by separable joints, the joint-sections fixed on each character interlocking with those on the adjacent charac' ter or characters, substantially as shown and described.

WILLIAM E. WA LLER.

\Vitnesses:

CLARENCE L. BURGER, EDGAR TATE. 

